I enjoy my 50 minute bus ride but get bummed when I see a “Pepsi Joy” or “Weblocal” bus trundling towards me. I understand that MT probably needs the cash but these buses are so invasive.
1) It’s bad enough that we are bombarded with advertisements everywhere but please spare us our public transit.
2) Windows make the bus ride! When you’re stuck inside one of those buses, it’s like being in a motion-sickness-inducing box.
3) Windows make the bus ride! It’s a boring ride if you can’t see outside, especially if the weather/sky is cool or when driving by the water.
If nothing else, give us back the windows!!!
—Otherwise happy bus-rider
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
ewwwwww, bus people…. no wonder some lady chucked her lung-butter on there.
there’s your answer, it’s the windows being not quite so translucent.
This bitch gets PK’s seal of approval.
Get rich, buy a limo and hire a chauffeur, OP.
I can see perfectly out of these busses with wrap around advertising.
I don’t look out bus windows. I read my book or pick up a Metro off a seat. I’ve never noticed the advertising.
Advertising helps pay the bills. Pepsi is awesome.
The ads aren’t solid and perfectly seethrough(and hello, giant fucking windshield), they’ve been on there for more than a decade, and anything that helps keep fares from doing a faster climb upwards is worth it. Besides what are you going to miss admiring for the next 5 months, OP? Road filth and salt crust all over the glass, that’s what.
I look out those ads all the time. It’s no big deal.
I prefer the ads, they diffuse the sunlight. There’s nothing worse than sitting on the bus with the sun glaring through the window. If you don’t have a hat or sunglasses with you, you have to suffer, switch seats if possible… or hold your hand up over your eyes for the entire ride with nothing to rest it on except that tiny little windowsill with that rubber bump running through it that always hits your funny bone whenever the bus goes over a bump in the road.
The buses with the ads have nice even light all the time, so you don’t get the sudden blaring white light reflected up at you from your book page whenever your window turns towards the sun. Or for the bus ride music listeners and texters, you don’t get the sudden blaring light that makes it impossible to see the screen on your phone/ipod/music listening device…
I don’t mind advertising as long as it’s good advertising, the Halifax Joy Ride buses are a brilliant idea on pepsi’s part. Especially the idea to include the names of the cities they run in on the ads, people love that. And they actually look good, unlike most bus side ads. Come to think of it pepsi’s whole packaging makeover recently was really well done too. They know their shit.
What the hell is the problem with ads? I like seeing out windows, sure, but I certainly wouldn’t let it ruin my day lol… Wow some people.
I get nauseous/motion sick when I can’t see out the windows, it sucks, especially this time of year with so little day light. I hate the bus.
How about this, MT removes all ads from Buses and you pay $7.50 per ride! Problem solved!
“Come to think of it pepsi’s whole packaging makeover recently was really well done too. They know their shit.”
yeah, because their marketing budget is SOOO restrictive and pithy….
they only put eleventy-billion dollars a year in getting their name out there.
Swampdonkey beat me to the best comment of all. The windows will be caked with salt until March so it really doesn’t matter. And yes, the buses are washed almost daily, they just really attract salt. I have a picture from training of what 6 hours of driving did to a bus. The back bus ad was half covered by the training sign. When I took it off, it was like night and day.
The buses themselves don’t bother me much if the bus condom is designed right.